
Melina Mercouri
Oyuncu · 1920 – 1994 · Athens, Greece
Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David di Donatello for Topkapi. Mercouri was also nominated for one Tony Award, three Golden Globes, and two BAFTA Awards in her acting career. In 1987 she was awarded a special prize in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize. Mercouri was a member of the Hellenic Parliament, elected as a representative of PASOK. In October 1981, she became the first female Minister of Culture and Sports. She has the longest tenure of any of Greece's Ministers of Culture, having served from 1981 to 1989, and then from 1993 until her death in 1994, during PASOK governments. Mercouri's political activism included her long campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. One of her greatest achievements was the establishment of the European Capitals of Culture, with Athens chosen as the first capital in 1985. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melina Mercouri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film6.3Dram1920s Greece is occupied by the Turks. A country in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. A small community conduct their annual Passion Play. The leading citizens, under auspices of the Patriarch, choose the actors: a stuttering shepherd as Jesus, the town butcher as Judas, the town prostitute as Mary Magdalene, and so on. As the story unfolds, the Passion becomes a reality.
Film5.2DramRomantikAn over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
Once Is Not Enough
1975 · 18 votes
Film6.2DramSavaşIntercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
The Victors
1963 · 29 votes
Film4.5AksiyonKomediAn American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
A Man Could Get Killed
1966 · 8 votes
Film6.8KomediRomantikAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
FilmBelgeselThe Marbles started filming on the 25th of March 2021 the day Greece celebrated its 200th year of freedom, and outlines the case for the Parthenon Marbles to be returned to Athens. Documenting the ups and downs that have occurred since.
The Marbles
2025
Film5.3DramRomantikA female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
10:30 P.M. Summer
1966 · 29 votes
Film6.5KomediSuçArthur Simon Simpson, Yunanistan Kavala'da yaşayan tembel orta yaşlı adam, havaalanında turistlere ucuz hatıra eşyaları satmaktadır. Sonra onlara araba servisi yapar, aynı zamanda da değerli eşyalarını çalmaya çalışır. Potansiyel kurbanlarından biri ise hırsız Walter Harper'dır. Walter, Topkapı Sarayı'ndan turistlerin görmesi için camlı çerçeve içinde sunulan, Padişah II. Mehmed'in zümrütle kaplı hançerini çalmayı planlamaktadır. Walter ve çekici arkadaşı Elizabeth Lipp, Simpson'ı Amerikan limuzinini Atina'dan İstanbul'a götürmesi için kiralar.
Film4.3KomediAfter runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.
Gaily, Gaily
1969 · 9 votes
Film5.8DramTarihA lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
1958 · 9 votes
Film5.6TarihMaceraHenri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
Film5.0KomediIn a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Nasty Habits
1977 · 7 votes
Film6.4KomediIn Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack thereof) to the announcement.
Film5.7DramRomantikA modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.
Phaedra
1962 · 43 votes
Film6.2DramVincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.
Film5.9DramSuçA gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Film5.5DramA single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
Promise at Dawn
1970 · 10 votes
Film6.9RomantikDramThe story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.
Film5.4DramBelgeselAn indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
The Rehearsal
1974 · 5 votes
Film6.6MüzikBelgeselA documentary about the resistance of the people against the millitary Greek junta.
Film6.2DramMaya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda, a Bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
Film8.0MüzikThe film is a rundown of the songs sung by the stars of the time, chained to various shows such as strip and comic caricatures.
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Dizi7.6Talk ShowThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · 97 votes
Dizi6.8Talk ShowThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · 12 votes
Dizi7.0AileKomediFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
What's My Line?
1950 · 29 votes
- Dizi7.3Talk Show
Die Drehscheibe
1964 · 3 votes
Dizi6.0Talk ShowA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · 2 votes
Dizi8.0Talk ShowHaberLe Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · 3 votes
- Dizi6.0Talk Show
Samedi soir
1971 · 1 votes
Dizi8.0Talk ShowDiscorama
1959 · 1 votes
Dizi8.7BelgeselAileCinépanorama
1956 · 3 votes
- Dizi8.0Talk ShowBelgesel
V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971 · 3 votes
Dizi8.0BelgeselÀ bout portant
1968 · 1 votes
Dizi8.0BelgeselDim Dam Dom
1965 · 2 votes
- Dizi10.0Realite
Wünsch dir was
1969 · 1 votes
- DiziTalk ShowBelgesel